A chase of carjacking suspects by law enforcement from Los Angeles to Ontario Sunday ended with a SigAlert closing eastbound lanes of the 60 Freeway at Euclid Avenue in Ontario for a little more than an hour before two arrests ended the incident, authorities said.

Details were scant, but Los Angeles Police reported the chase started as a pursuit of hijacking suspects.

That pursuit was first reported at 9:12 a.m., CHP Officer Peter Nicholson said, with Los Angeles police asking the CHP to help at 9:56 a.m. Nicholson did not have information about where the chase began in Los Angeles, or what other roadways may have been involved.

Nicholson said the pursued vehicle stopped at or near the Euclid Avenue offramp of the eastbound 60 Freeway. The CHP called a SigAlert for the area at 10:42 a.m.

Witnesses from the scene said they saw motorists being directed to drive the wrong way to exit the freeway, and the arrival of what appeared to be a SWAT team. The agency for the team could not be immediately determined.

A journalist since 1975 for City News Service in Los Angeles, The Associated Press in Los Angeles and New York, and The Press-Enterprise, Richard K. De Atley has been Entertainment Editor and a features writer. He has also reported on trials and breaking news. He is currently a business reporter for The P-E. De Atley is a Cal State Long Beach graduate, a lifelong Southern Californian (except for that time in New York -- which was great!) and has been in Riverside since 1992.